This really sickens and frightens me but this appears to be the truth:

Celebrity Saudi preacher who 'raped' and tortured his five-year-old daughter to death escapes with light sentence-Lama al-Ghamdi's back was broken and she had been raped and burned-She died in October from her injuries after ten months in hospital-Her father Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a prominent Islamist preacher, admitted beating her but was freed after agreeing to pay £31,000 compensation

If this is how Islamic justice operates the World really is in trouble.

Why on Earth are Western Governments supporting these militant Muslims in Syria, Egypt etc?

A large problem in Mohammedanism is that, due to the influence of al-Wahhab, radicals will destroy their own culture, kill their own children, and bully everyone else into submission. (Albeit we do the same thing in "Western" culture with a more shadowy ideology.)

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how surprised were you when you read this article?

For me it was right around 2. (10 being on the highly surprised end.)

For reference, when I find out that my dog has poo'ed in the basement after being left in her room all day, I am typically at a 3.

In all seriousness, I first read:

Bad Fruit of Islam: Saudi Preacher Raps, Tortures, and Kills his own Daughter.

By the time I hit daughter I realized I either got something wrong the first time or my street cred is in serious jeopardy.

So I take it your level of surprise was quite high? If I had read it like that mine would have been significantly higher. I never really thought that they'd be all that good at rapping. I haven't heard a lot of it, but I did hear some Turks rapping in German once. They have to be worse than Bulgarians. I'm talking Little Bowwow crappy.

The Russians and French, on the other hand, are rather good at it, though the French have to import Africans to do it. French rapped with a West African accent is phenomenal.

I have heard Arabic death metal before. Not bad at all. There was actually a song called Al Jihad. That was lol-worthy yet metal-heavy as well.